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#vic.txt#my art#i will do bran rickon ned and cat as well i promise#sansa stark#arya stark#robb stark#jon snow#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#hotd#house of the dragon#house stark#house targaryen#game of thrones#got#asoiaf art#asoiaf fanart#art#fanart#illustration#artists on tumblr#digital art#character art
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If there is one line I like to over-analyze in the ASoIAF books it is a rather famous thought that goes inside Cat's head before her death. As the steel is close to her throat Cat thinks "No, don’t, don’t cut my hair, Ned loves my hair." And this line and her entire inner monologue is absolutely heart-breaking but one thing I fixate on is the actual sentence itself.
"Ned loves my hair."
Anyone who has read the books knows that Cat holds contempt for the fact that except for Arya, she has failed to give Ned children who look like him. It is also one of the reasons she dislikes Jon so much, because the mother of Jon (who she assumes to be Ned's bastard son) has managed to give Ned a child that looks just like him while she, his lawfully wedded wife gave birth to five of his children only for four of them to come out looking exactly like her. Red hair, blue eyes. Unlike Jon (and Arya) who share Ned's dark hair and dark eyes.
And knowing that it is so interesting to me that Cat's last thought about Ned (and her last thought ever) was that Ned loves her hair.
Because Ned loved her, he loved her hair, he loved her the way she was. And every time he looked at Robb, Sansa, Bran and Rickon he saw the reflection of the woman he loved, while Cat was so upset that they weren't all reflections of the man she loved.
Every time Ned ran his fingers through their hair, he ran his fingers through the hair of the woman he loved. He never resented Cat for the fact that four of his children didn't look like him, he loved that they looked like their mother, again, the woman he loved so much. He loved that they had the same hair he loved on Cat, and judging by it being her last thought Cat also knew that Ned loved her hair (and the way she looked), whether she ever came to the realization that Ned was perfectly happy with the way their children looked at all, or if she realized after he was dead and it was too late, it is unclear. But all those years she beat herself up over nothing.
Ned loved her the way she was, Ned loved his children the way they were, when they looked like him and when they didn't. Because when they didn't look like him, they looked like the love of his life, his darling wife.
And if the books decide to go with R+L=J it also adds another layer to Cat and Ned's relationship. Because Jon's mother was always a woman she didn't know but was still competing with in her mind for Ned's love for all these years. Turns out she didn't even exist. Turns out she didn't need to feel inferior to the woman Ned loved enough to not even talk about with her, no need to feel bad about the fact that she was able to give Ned a child that looked like him while Cat "failed".
At the end of the day, all the voices in her head making her feel insecure in her marriage never needed to be there, because everything she thought of as a problem with her were not problems at all for Ned. He was perfectly happy with her and their children.
#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf meta#got#game of thrones#eddard stark#ned stark#catelyn stark#cat stark#catelyn tully#jon snow#robb stark#sansa stark#arya stark#bran stark#rickon stark#nedcat
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you know how in hp all Harry and Ginny’s kids are named after like. his dead parents and his dead godfather and the various teachers he wants to remember. and for Ginny there’s maybe like one kid who gets Luna as a middle name for whatever that’s supposed to mean to Ginny idk
anyway nedcat kind of the same
#like robb bran rickon that’s all ppl Ned wants to shout out#Sansa and Arya northern names#when was cat going to get a look in lol. their sixth??#anyway not to compare nedcat to an hp relationship I like nedcat a lot#but this is never remarked upon at all lol
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Starks 🤍🩶✨
a lot of red hair
#fan art#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf fanart#ned stark#eddard stark#catelyn stark#catelyn tully#robb stark#jon snow#sansa stark#arya stark#bran stark#rickon stark#stark kids sleep in a pile#ned loves cat's hair<3#sansa knighting bran and arya!!!#cat nursing baby rickon uwu#the best and the most tragic couple in the seven kingdoms#house stark#stark kids#cat's cheekbones<3#i accidentally made everyone cuddle jon#and it's a happy accident#my art.
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i’ve watched you with a thousand eyes and one
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bran!!!!!!! 🤏🤏🤏
#asoiaf art#valyrianscrolls#my art <3#bran stark#my sweet little boy… mfw cat called him her sweetest child i’ll literally pass away#i wish ye could see the ref pics i had to take for this HELP#me 🤝 making my dreamers Horrified
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She knelt before the Mother. “My lady, look down on this battle with a mother’s eyes. They are all sons, every one. Spare them if you can, and spare my own sons as well. Watch over Robb and Bran and Rickon. Would that I were with them.”
Catelyn IV, ACOK
#catelyn stark#catelyn tully#asoiaf quotes#a clash of kings#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#house stark#house tully#faith of the seven#robb stark#bran stark#rickon stark#cat stark
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were sansa and catelyn given the only warm bedchambers in wf while all the boys were made to huddle together for warmth or was sansa lying to lf just bc she was embarassed by his insulting vision of her home?
#valyrianscrolls#asoiaf#sansa stark#jon snow#jonathan snowflake starkgaryen#thing is yeah jon cld have more memories of the last winter than sansa but robb wld be the only bro he had 'long ago' then#bc bran and rickon are even younger than sansa! and even if we stretch to say this is the one time he was referring to theon as foster bro#that doesnt work bc theon wasnt there at wf before the long summer either!#tho i'm sure there's someone out there who'd believe cat sneakily made sure jon was always freezing even if that affected her own sons too#(c)lsb
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Remember George's outline notes that had "joy of giving" and "mercy at the gate" for Arya? Mercy is crossed out and we obviously have that as her sample chapter, so what if Arya's next alias is "Joy"? Over-thinking the significance of that phrase and how it could apply to the rest of her Braavos arc🤔
#arya stark#asoiaf#something something /joy of giving/ could align with /all men must serve/ and Arya's apprenticeship with the courtesans#Arya learns more about courtly manners and becomes more comfortable with engaging in highborn spaces#while becoming more privy to Braavosi politics and how that connects to her responsibilities/identity as a Stark#when I imagine Arya reclaiming her identity I imagine it coming with her acceptance of even the /hard/ parts of her identity#I think Ned's words about /summer games/ and growing up will be incredibly relevant to her here#her reclaiming her identity while ignoring the /Lady/ aspect of it makes no sense...especially considering how often we're reminded of it#literally every time she reveals her identity it comes with people acknowledging her highborn status#one thing that makes me wish we had on-page Cat/Arya interactions cause I think her twow arc will be heavy on remembering Ned's words 😭#imagine her reuniting with Jeyne before she knows Bran+Rickon are alive and deciding to reclaim her identity at the unmasking festival#I have a pet theory that she could end up /taking responsibility/ for Jeyne's marriage to Ramsay in order to offer some protection to Jeyne#I think it fits considering she has a very protective nature and could feel guilty since she had the opportunity to reveal herself to Roose#basically I want the reclamation of her identity to be incredibly personal and about her feelings + values#which is why I like to imagine it happening before she's aware rickon+bran are alive but after she gets news that Jon is dead#I want her motivation to return home to be primarily about her internal development while outside factors are supporting#/need/ Arya exploring and accepting her identity in her own way#deciding to be Arya while her family is lost to her and that identity is connected to an unwanted marriage would feel so significant#(and yes it was Jeyne that was married to Ramsay but it was Arya's name used and it's still (partially) about/will impact her)#anyways I think about Arya's Braavosi arc a normal about can you tell? 😀#one day I won't put the majority of my post in the tags but today is not that day#I definitely thought too hard about this though that's why I have to hide it lol
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me talking about the majority of asoiaf characters: THAT IS A CHILD!!! AN INFANT!!! A FETUS!!!
#jon would not be chiseled with a beautiful beard he has pimples and a high pitched voice!!!#sansa is not a seductress witch who put womens rights back 20 years she is barely 13!!!#arya is not a badass sexy girlboss in armour she is a scrawny little creature who does wolf roleplay in the school yard#dany runs a warrior cats blog!#robb is constantly mistaken for being 20 and he must correct the person with a red face and say that no he is actually 15!#beric is struggling through college he has an exam next week but he is also scheduled to play the role of god at the same time!#bran doesn’t know how to count past 100
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Half amused and half devastated at how differently Bran and Catelyn describe Robb growing a beard, like Bran’s semi-awed because Robb’s his big brother obviously and “omg he’s so old and mature wow he’s an adult now,,,” but then Catelyn comes into the war camp going all “look at you, growing a little beard!! :,) Mommy’s handsome boy is growing up so fast :,(” and you know Robb sees both as true, trapped in a liminal stage of youth he’ll never end up growing out of, despite how hard he tries to look it.
#there’s a whole meta post about Robb and Cat and hair somewhere on this site that I regret not saving#if I find it I’ll reblog with a link bc it’s worth the read#valyrianscrolls#asoiaf#robb stark#catelyn stark#bran stark#sorry it’s midnight and I’m menstruating
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Catelyn Stark was going mad with grief after losing Ned. The Greyjoy boy wasn’t helping, prancing around her house like a hoochie
Is it catheon or thelyn? Either way, this ship has me in a chokehold
#catelyn tully#theon greyjoy#asoiaf#ned stark#robb stark#jon snow#sansa stark#arya strak#bran stark#rickon stark#game of thrones#Theon was so thirsty for mommy milk#he would have put that carton back empty#just so Cat would scold him#theolyn
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obsessed with how jaime looms like a spectre over the characters and the reader alike in agot and to an even greater extent in acok. you've actually witnessed him firsthand a few times with characters like jon, tyrion and sansa, but most of him is just the golden-haired man haunting bran's dreams, terrifying him, tyrion's brave, strong, impulsive brother who has to be saved, the kingslayer of the smallfolk, the one whose incest and kingslaying has brought down the wrath of the gods upon them, ned's jaime, who is vile and never to be trusted, not worthy of any empathy, the kingslayer that is more idea than person for the younger characters like jon, arya and sansa, the kingslayer that theon almost crossed blades with, his chance for glory (which...okay theon...) the kingslayer whose vile deeds don't erase the fact that he is a knight for stannis, the kingslayer who murdered daenerys' father. he's mentioned in so many conversations. cerwyn mentions him to bran and he feels like he's falling again, renly talks about him and cersei with catelyn in front of brienne, brienne and catelyn mention him in their conversation when they're going to riverrun, robb and tyrion and tywin are all thinking about him. grrm does such a good job at just establishing his presence and significance (not only in the narrative but in a meta way as well, a hint for what's to come) in this world, which just elevates that scene when cat and brienne go down to the dungeons to meet him to an insane level.
#so much to be said about each of these characters' relationship jaime#specifically their relationship to jaime before ASOS#the parasocial nature of it#i sometimes forget that bran is literally terrified of jaime#like i blorbofy him so much but then i remember that this is the VILLAIN in bran's life who took everything away from him#regardless of his intentions or reasons or whatever#and then brienne's relationship with the idea of jaime lannister thee kinglsayer is so compelling as well#her being the one in the tent listening to cat and renly talk for the very first time about jaime and cers#and not only the incest but the attempt on bran's life???#god#GODDDD#jaime lannister#asoiaf reread#asoiaf#acok#agot#valyrianscrolls#asoiaf meta
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Cat and her kittens
#asoiaf#fan art#a song of ice and fire#asoiaf fanart#asoiaf art#catelyn tully#catelyn stark#robb stark#sansa stark#arya stark#bran stark#rickon stark#house stark#arya loves flowers :3#i LOVE drawing tully hair#CAT!!!#sorry jon youre my fav but youre not cat's kitten :(#i love how even king robb is still shorter than his mom#my art.#fair warning: not a single character in this drawing have a good fate
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ned goes to king's landing modern au and his phone betrays him
#nedcat#ned x cat#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#modern au#ig#catelyn stark#catelyn tully#ned stark#arya stark#bran stark#robb stark#jon snow#sansa stark#art
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Rereading Game of Thrones for the first time since high school is wild, because most of what I remember from my friend group all reading them was which characters the boys made fun of, namely Sansa and Bran and Catelyn, and the girls defending them, and now I'm like, I knew we were correct even if we were partially being spitefully contrarian for the sake of it but it is really apparent in retrospect how correct we were.
#like! yeah sansa has silly desires! shes also way more equipped for king's landing than arya!#yeah bran starts out the book getting shoved out a window! he's actually the farthest seeing of all!#yeah cat even curses herself for remaining so long with bran to the neglect of winterfell but in the end that's the only reason he's alive#ANYWAY if you read the series trying to pick out who you're supposed to sympathize with#instead of like. pitying them for their petty games (that they may or may not even want to play!) that will lead them all to ruin#i don't know why you're reading the books.#also bless my friends for never taking the 'I'm not like other girls' route. beloveds. they know who they are 😘#megs is reading
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